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New Mount Moriah

Ghost town · Nevada County, Arkansas

Laneburg quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000)
Laneburg quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

New Mount Moriah is a ghost town in Nevada County, Arkansas. It is one of 11 former communities in Nevada County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 28th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists New Mount Moriah as a historical populated place on the Laneburg topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 33.6307° N, 93.3043° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleLaneburg
Elevation288 ft
Nearest living townRosston, AR
Distance to it3.1 miles
GNIS feature ID60377
Coordinates33.63067, -93.30434

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Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

New Mount Moriah today, aerial view
Laneburg quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000)

Left: Laneburg quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

New Mount Moriah is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Rosston, AR (population 362), about 3.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 288 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

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Questions

Where is New Mount Moriah?

New Mount Moriah is in Nevada County, Arkansas, at 33.6307, -93.3043.

How many ghost towns are in Nevada County?

Nevada County, Arkansas has 11 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-05.